It’s football season! Before you join your friends for some football, brew and pizza, check out these NFL fun facts from www.DailyInfographic.com:
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During a regular NFL game, you are likely to watch: 11 minutes
of actual playing, 17 minutes of replays, 3 seconds of cheerleaders, and
67 minutes of just standing there.
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It takes 3,000 cows to supply the leather for a year’s supply of footballs for the NFL.
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The smallest playing NFL history is Jack “Soapy” Shapiro, who
played blocking back for the Staten Island Stapletons in 1929; He was
5’1” and weighed 119 pounds.
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That yellow line costs $20,000 per game. Just think: 16 games x
32 teams x 2 teams per game equals $5.12 million worth of yellow lines a
year during the regular season!
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80% of all Super Bowl tickets go to corporate sponsors.
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Pizza delivery drivers are in more accidents on Super Bowl
Sunday than any other day of the year; there are 9 million pizza slices
delivered on Super Bowl Sunday - 44% more than on a normal Sunday.
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The money following the Super Bowls, antacid sales increase by 20%.
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An estimated 90 million people flush the toilet during the Super Bowl half time.
